Descartes' error : emotion, reason, and the human brain / Antonio Damasio.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2005Copyright date: ©1994Description: xxiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 014303622X
- 9780143036227
- Emotion, reason, and the human brain
- 612.8232 23
- QP401 .D2 2005
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"First published in the United States of American by G.P. Putnam's Sons ... 1994"--Title page verso.
"Includes a new preface"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unpleasantness in Vermont -- Gage's brain revealed -- A modern Phineas Gage -- In colder blood -- Assembling an explanation -- Biological regulation and survival -- Emotions and feelings -- The somatic-marker hypothesis -- Testing the somatic-marker hypothesis -- The body-minded brain -- A passion for reasoning -- Postscriptum.
"Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking and to normal social behavior." --from back cover.
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